South Korea's Transport Ministry said they are planning to allow only selected package tours in the first phase of the travel bubble programme. - ST FILE, UNSPLASH
SEOUL (The Straits Times/ANN): South Korea is hoping to expedite travel bubble talks with the likes of Singapore and Taiwan to allow quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated people from as early as July, as part of a national campaign to encourage mass vaccination.
The Transport Ministry said on Wednesday (June 9) that it is pushing to allow people who have taken two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to go on group tours to countries that have strong virus control measures in place and have been relatively successful in containing the pandemic.
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